Brundibar
10 best books like Brundibar (Tony Kushner): In the Night Kitchen, Alice in Sunderland, Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months, The Very Last Castle, Outside Over There, Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, Swine Lake, The Carrot Seed, The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo
| Author | Maurice Sendak |
| ISBN | 0099417472 |
I have a confession to make, goodreads. You might want to sit down.
I've...
| Author | Bryan Talbot |
| ISBN | 1593076738 |
Sunderland! Thirteen hundred years ago it was the greatest center of learning in the whole of Christendom and the very cradle of English consciousness. In the time of Lewis Carroll it was the greatest shipbuilding port in the world. To this city that gave the world the electric light bulb, the stars and...
Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months
Maurice Sendak, the Caldecott Medal-winning creator of the iconic Where the Wild Things Are, created a warmly loved classic book of months, in verse, with Chicken Soup with Rice.
This rhyming book cleverly uses a little boy’s love for soup to teach children the months of the year and...
| Author | Travis Jonker |
| ISBN | 1419725742 |
A curious little girl watches the man who guards the last castle in town. Every time she passes by him, she tries to catch his eye. While the other townspeople fear what may be locked up inside the mysterious castle, the girl finally gets up the courage to knock on the door and find out what’s really behind...
| Author | Maurice Sendak |
| ISBN | 0064431851 |
this is the only thing my summer class was useful for: it tipped me off that this book existed. for future reference, if there are books that exist that were the source material for childhood favorite movies of mine, i need to be informed. in a timely manner. not twenty years later, thats just humiliating....
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
| Author | Andrea Davis Pinkney |
| ISBN | 0786801786 |
You ever hear of the jazz playin' man, the man with the cats who could swing with his band?
His name was Duke. Duke Ellington. As a child, he said piano made an umpy-dump sound that was headed nowhere worth following. But, years later, he heard the piano played a whole new way. People called the music...
| Author | James Marshall |
| ISBN | 0062051717 |
While I was and remain in absolute love with Maurice Sendak's brilliant illustrations (they are lively, fun, imaginative, and the delicious puns and word plays using porcine terms/descriptions from a number of different languages leave me smiling gleefully and with much appreciation), James Marshall's...
| Author | Ruth Krauss |
| ISBN | 0694004928 |
From beloved children's book creators Ruth Krauss and Crockett Johnson comes the perennial favorite The Carrot Seed, now in a board book that's perfect for little hands.
When a little boy plants a carrot seed, everyone tells him it won't grow. But when you are very young, there are some things...
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
| Author | Linda Williams |
| ISBN | 0064431835 |
“A splendiferous Halloween story.” —
The Horn Book
“A great purchase for Halloween or any time of year.” —
School Library Journal
(starred review)
Once upon a time, there was a little old lady who was not afraid of anything! But one autumn night, while walking in the...
| Author | Kevin Lewis |
| ISBN | 0786804297 |
Written in rhyming iambic pentameter, I have sang this song in a sing-song voice, as a rap, like an opera and read with many different tempos. The rhythm and rhyme of this book is just about perfect. As a parent, I love to read to my child, but I especially like books that give my tongue a challenge or the chance...
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THIS BOOK, I HAVE CRIED AND CRIED
****SOME SPOILERS****
This is based on the true story of Zlatka and Fania who were in Auschwitz together, they had lost their families, they had lost everything, but they found each other. And...
Choose to Matter: Being Courageously and Fabulously YOU
| Author | Julie Foudy |
| ISBN | 1368003389 |
In Choose to Matter, Julie Foudy, two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and former captain of the US National team, takes you on a journey to discover your authentic self. This book is a roadmap to unleash that courageous YOU and have you singing your dreams out loud. Along with sharing stories from her playing...
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids
| Author | Thomas C. Foster |
| ISBN | 0062200879 |
The go-to bestselling guide to help young people navigate from a middle school book report to English Comp 101
In How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids, New York Times bestselling author and professor Thomas C. Foster gives tweens the tools they need to become thoughtful readers.
With...
The Girls of Room 28: Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
| Author | Hannelore Brenner |
| ISBN | 0805242449 |
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they...
The Avengers: Scarlet Witch
| Author | Dan Abnett |
| ISBN | 0785193359 |
Wanda Maximoff , the most bewitching Avenger, goes it alone in this collection of her solo adventures away from Earth's Mightiest Heroes! First, the science of cosmic writing team DnA and the magic of the Scarlet Witch combine in true comic book alchemy! Now, Wanda must confront very personal demons,...
There's a Wocket in My Pocket / The Foot Book / The Nose Book - 3 Board Book Set (Bright and Early Board Books)
| Author | Dr. Seuss |
| ISBN | 0449007979 |
THE NOSE BOOK: "I see a nose on every face. I see noses every place!" Noses come in all shapes, colors, and sizes and are handy to have for sniffling, smelling, and . . . playing horns? This simple, sometimes silly story offers little ones a first ode to the nose and all that it does. THE FOOT BOOK:A toe-tapper...
| Author | Paul McCartney |
| ISBN | 0525648674 |
From Paul McCartney—an action-packed picture-book adventure celebrating the fun that grandparents and grandkids can get up to.
See the compass needle spin, let the magic fun begin!
Meet Grandude—a super-cool grandfather who is an intrepid explorer with some amazing tricks...
| Author | Ace Landers |
| ISBN | 0545079624 |
Simple train facts in a board book shaped like a train!
I am a train.
I travel on railroad tracks.
All aboard for this fun and sturdy board book shaped like a train. Read along as trains travel from town to town delivering passengers and important cargo to train stations across the country.
Little...
